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ICE HOOK.

No. 296,321. Patented Apr. 8, 1884.

UNITED STATES PATENT JAMES V. EVENDEN', OF ROME, NEV YORK.

` ICE-HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Lettere Patent No. 296,321, dated April 8, 1884. Application filed March 3, l1884. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern,.-

Be it known that I, JAMES W. EVENDEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Rome, in the county of Oneida and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Ice- Hook, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing. p

This invention has relation to ice-hooks intended for family use in handling cakes or blocks of ice; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claim appended.

The figure in the drawing represents a view in perspective of a pair of ice-hooks embodying the improvements of `my invention.

The obj ect of the improvement is to produce a simple, cheap, and convenient pair of icehooks for family use.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawing, a designates one steel wire, and b another one, and from these two steel wires the ice-hooks are formed in the following manner: The wires are cut in equal lengths, and are twisted together as shown, except for a portion of their length at their middles,which are left plain,and are about one-half of an inch apart, to render the hooks extremely iiexible at this point, and also to form a handle, b', that willenot cut into the hand when lifting and carrying blocks of ice with the hooks. Upon the ends of the wire a are formed the hooks c by bending the wire inwardly and on slightly-upward inclines, and sh arpening their ends to points, as shown. The ends of the wire b are bent into eye or loop form, and the hook-arms are passed through these eyes, which serve to strengthen the hooks and prevent them from being bent down by the weight of the cakes of ice that are being handled by them. The twisted portions of the wires give suiiicient strength and stiffness to the hooks, without the rigidity that would attend the hooks if made of a single wire of a weight equal to both. The handle portion is more flexible than the twisted portions, thereby allowing the hook-points to be easily sprung over a large cake of ice, and when the hooks are lifted upon the points are forced into the cake of ice, thereby taking a iirm and secure hold upon it, sothat it may be carried to the place of deposit or use. The wires, after being twisted to form the handle and bent to form the hook-points and eyes, as above described, are bent nearly in the form of a horse shoe, as shown, and are then ready for the market and for use.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

As an improved article of manufacture, a pair of ice-hooks consisting of two steel wires twisted together to form the main portions of the hooks, and provided with the hook-points passed through the eyes at the ends of one of the wires which form the ice-hooks, and having the curved handle formed from plain portions of the two wires separated from each other between the twisted portions, substantially as speciiied.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES YV. EVENDEN.

Witnesses:

W'M. J. DoYLn, VINFIELD S. PRATT. 

